Mayank Kejriwal is trying to fix something most people outside academia never see, and most people inside it quietly accept.
He is the CEO of Grail, a company building AI tools for scientists, but the real story is not the tool. It is the problem he thinks science has become.
Kejriwal trained as a computer scientist, earned his PhD at UT Austin, and went on to teach at USC. He stayed in academia long enough to see a pattern that bothered him. Scientists were spending too much time writing, formatting, and packaging their work, and not enough time thinking. The tools were not helping. The incentives were not helping either.
So he left and built something himself.
